Changing paths : international development and the new politics of inclusion / edited by Peter P. Houtzager and Mick Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houtzager, Peter P.

Moore, Mick.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Political aspects.

Economic development.

Poverty--Government policy.

Poverty.

Distributive justice.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with poverty reduction and the political participation of excluded groups has set the stage for a new politics of inclusion within nations and in the international arena. The essays in this volume explore what forms the new politics of inclusion can take in low- and middle-income countries. The contributors favor a polity-centered approach that focuses on the political capacities of social and state actors to negotiate large-scale collective solutions and that highlights various possible strategies to lift large numbers of people out of poverty and political subordination.

The contributors suggest there is little basis for the radical polycentrism that colors so much contemporary development thought. They focus on how the political capabilities of different societal and state actors develop over time and how their development is influenced by state action and a variety of institutional and other factors. The final chapter draws insightful conclusions about the political limitations and opportunities presented by current international discourse on poverty.

Contents:

1 Introduction: From Polycentrism, to the Polity / Peter P. Houtzaerger 1

2 Political Capabilities over the Long Run / Laurence Whitehead, George Gray-Molina 32

3 Beyond the Political Impossibility Theorem of Agrarian Reform / Ronald J. Herring 58

4 Coalition Building from Below / Peter P. Houtzager, Jonathan Pattenden 88

5 Grounds for Alliance?: Overlapping Interests of Poor and Not so Poor / Joan M. Nelson 119

6 The Boundaries of Antipoverty Policy: Economic Ideas, Political Coalitions, and the Structure of Social Provision in Chile and Mexico / Marcus J. Kurtz 139

7 Polity Qualities: How Governance Affects Poverty / Mick Moore, Jennifer Leavy, Howard White 167

8 Do Political Regimes Matter?: Poverty Reduction and Regime Differences Across India / John Harriss 204

9 Does Decentralization Contribute to Poverty Reduction?: Surveying the Evidence / Richard C. Crook, Alan S. Sverrisson 233

10 Arguing the Politics of Inclusion / Mick Moore 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472030972

0472113224

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.17792

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.